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Best arts, crafts and hobby shops in Chennai
The 10 most notable arts, crafts and hobby shops in Chennai, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Kamal Technologies
87, B1, Karuneegar Street, Adambakkam
342 m from St. Thomas Mount railway station, rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.359, percentile 100 of 23
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2
Hindustan Trading Company Art Store
69/35, IOA Complex, Ajantha bus stop, Shop No: 8-12 and 171-172, Justice Pratap Singh Building ground floor, Royapettah High Rd, behind Police booth / Anna statue
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.336, percentile 95.45 of 23
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3
R S Shopping Centre
LB Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.251, percentile 90.91 of 23
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4
William Penn – Chennai
Unit No S110A, First Floor, Express Avenue Mall Avenue, 49, 50L, Whites Road, Royapettah
485 m from Royapettah metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.221, percentile 86.36 of 23
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5
Chaya Tanjore Art and More
63, Eldams Rd, behind american hardware
344 m from Bharathidasan Road metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.217, percentile 81.82 of 23
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6
Marson Leather House
3rd Floor, Al Noor Apartments, 28, Vepery High Road, Periamet
641 m from Chennai Central, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.184, percentile 77.27 of 23
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Srushti Handicraft Emporium
Ground Floor, Sudarsan Building, No. 82, Chamiers Rd
95 m from Boat Club metro station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.151, percentile 72.73 of 23
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8
Anandha Stationery Stores
No 3 .And 4, Maroti Complex
692 m from Indira Nagar railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.106, percentile 68.18 of 23
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Technical Textiles India
No: 4, Ekambaram Estate, Alapakkam, Porur, Off Arcot Road
233 m from Karambakkam metro station, metro
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.089, percentile 63.64 of 23
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10
Agarwal Gems
Dhanalaxmi Complex, 130, NSC Bose Rd, near Bank of Baroda (E Dena
694 m from Chennai Central railway station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.062, percentile 59.09 of 23
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).